Apple launched its most talked about mixed reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, on February 2, 2024, in the U.S. However, just a day after the release of the product, the headset was hacked by a security researcher. Security Researcher Discovers Vulnerability In Apple’s Vision Pro Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx), an MIT Microarchitectural Security PhD student, announced
Read MoreSemafor editor Ben Smith speaks on stage during the Semafor Media Summit on April 10, 2023 in New York City. | Getty Suddenly, building news products on the web is back in fashion. As social traffic collapses and Google makes ominous AI-powered sounds about search, publishers across the board have started to reemphasize their websites
Read MoreAmazon’s biggest smart display includes an Alexa Voice Remote and integrated Fire TV support. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A smart display can amalgamate the various smart home and virtual assistant tools at your disposal, whether you prefer voice-activated assistants or smartphone-like interfaces for direct control. That’s exactly what Amazon’s Echo
Read MoreA multinational company’s Hong Kong office was the victim of an elaborate scam using deepfake video technology to impersonate executives and scam the company out of HK$200 million ($25.6 million), local police reported on Sunday (Jan 4). In what police described as the first scam of its kind in Hong Kong, scammers used deepfake technology
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s manipulated media policy is “incoherent” and focuses too much on whether a video was altered through artificial intelligence, rather than the harm it could cause, the company’s own Oversight Board said in a decision issued Monday. The policy recommendation came even as the Oversight Board upheld the
Read MoreOn autonomous robots, the most difficult challenges usually lie in the software and electronic realms, but the mechanics can also be very time consuming. To help address this challenge, [Nikodem Bartnik] is working on the Open Robotic Platform (ORP), a modular robotics chassis system designed to make prototyping as easy and affordable as possible. Video
Read MoreSocial media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 500 employees, in part to “promote in-person collaboration.” From a report: The company has executed multiple rounds of layoffs since 2022, most recently in November, when it trimmed a small number of product employees. The company
Read MoreThe Google Play Store added an app archiving feature last year that automatically archives apps you don’t use often to free up storage space. App archiving is currently only supported within the Google Play Store, and you can’t manually archive an app. Code within the latest Android beta suggests that Google could bake app archiving
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Roblox built an AI model that it says translates text chats so quickly users may not even notice it’s translating the messages of other players at first. It works with 16 languages, including English, French, Japanese, Thai, Polish, and Vietnamese. Dan Sturman, Roblox CTO, said in an interview with The Verge that
Read MoreAs I walked into the huge high bay that was to be my part-time office for the next couple of years, I was greeted by all manner of abandoned equipment haphazardly scattered around the room. As I later learned, this place was as a graveyard for old research projects, cast aside to be later gutted
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Security consultant and Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt has detailed a vulnerability in the API of Spoutible, a social platform that emerged following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, that could allow hackers to take full control of users’ accounts. After someone alerted Hunt to the vulnerability,
Read MoreThe pornographic deepfakes of Taylor Swift that proliferated on social media late last month originated from an online challenge to break safety mechanisms designed to block people from generating lewd images with artificial intelligence, according to social network analysis company Graphika. Bloomberg: For weeks, users of internet forum 4chan have taken part in daily competitions
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix A new render of the Nothing Phone 2a has leaked. The render shows a design that’s different from anything we’ve seen from Nothing. The new back panel could help differentiate the Phone 2a from the flagship series. Nothing is expected to release a mid-range phone called the Phone 2a later this year. A
Read MoreBugs and errors can cause users problems by crashing apps and preventing them from being closed normally. Here’s how to force quit frozen apps using the Apple Vision Pro. You can force quit unresponsive applications in visionOS App freezes are a common problem for computer users, with apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac halting workflows
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Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A Samsung executive has narrowed down the Galaxy Ring’s launch window. The executive stated that the smart ring would be available in the second half of 2024. Samsung revealed the Galaxy S24 phones at its Unpacked event last month, but it also used the occasion to confirm the existence
Read MoreMacworld iFixit has published the latest of its famous teardowns, where the repairs site disassembles a popular electronic device in order to examine and itemise its internal components. In this case Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset–at $3,499 a costly product to tear apart out of sheer curiosity–is the item under examination. Apple products are
Read MoreAs Super Bowl LVIII looms ever closer, Apple Music will sit down with halftime performer Usher for an exclusive interview about his road to the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Image Credit: Apple Music On February 8 at 1:00 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. ET, Apple Music Radio’s Nadeska Alexis will interview Usher at the Super
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap plans to lay off around 10 percent of its employees as the company continues to struggle with declines in the digital advertising market. The company had around 5,300 employees at the start of 2023. Snap previously cut 20 percent of its staff in 2022 and had a
Read MoreFrom mergers to AI, the EU’s aggressive rule-making hampers its ability to compete with China and the U.S. Greg Ip, writing for WSJ: These are humbling times for Europe. The continent barely escaped recession late last year as the U.S. boomed. It is losing out to the U.S. on artificial intelligence, and to China on
Read MoreOn this episode of the HomeKit Insider podcast, your hosts dive into Amazon’s failed Roomba acquisition, SwitchBot’s new hub, and what homeOS could be used for. HomeKit Insider Podcast After months of regulator inquisition, Amazon has forgone its latest would-be acquisition. The online retailer was set to take ownership of Roomba parent company iRobot, but
Read MoreThe Apple Vision Pro will work with many Bluetooth devices — but not all of them. Here’s what you can or cannot use with Apple’s new headset. You can connect AirPods to Apple Vision Pro [Apple] Just like an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac, Apple has made it possible for users to connect Bluetooth
Read MorePhoto illustration: The Verge The editor of the popular tech newsletter talks about leaving Substack and where he’s seeing successful business models in media. Continue reading…
Read MoreAfter a very brief hiatus, Samsung’s controversial Exynos chipset series is back. You’ll find it in global models of the new Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus, while the S24 Ultra receives Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy worldwide. Clearly, the Exynos 2400 is on the B-team, as Samsung uses a different chip for
Read MoreIf you need to hand the Apple Vision Pro to a new owner, or want to start again from scratch, you can quickly wipe the headset and get it back to how you first received it. Here’s how to factory reset the Apple Vision Pro. Factory resetting the Apple Vision Pro takes its software back
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